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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump welcomed Thai junta leader chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha to the White House on Monday, trying to turn the page after coups rocked one of America’s oldest alliances. Describing Prayut’s visit as a “great honor,” Trump offered a symbolic show of unity with the man behind a 2014 takeover that resulted in Washington cutting aid and cooling relations. “We’ve had a long and very storied history with Thailand,” Trump […]
For the sixth time, President Rodrigo Duterte visited war-torn Marawi City in Lanao Del Sur, this time, to lead the inauguration of Bahay Pag-Asa, a housing project for displaced Marawi residents. Bahay Pag-Asa, a government project in partnership with the private sector, aims to provide immediate shelter and accommodation for internally displaced persons in a 1.2-hectare parcel of land in Marawi City. It is located in Barangay Bito Buadi Itowa. Five housing units have been […]
by Laura Mannering Agence France Presse HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Each Sunday, a choir of Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong gathers to sing songs that remind them of the children they left back home. Known as the “Unsung Heroes”, these initially shy performers now regularly take the stage around Hong Kong and feature in a new documentary about the lives of the city’s maids, known locally as “helpers”. The theme of maternal sacrifice […]
PUERTO GALERA, Oriental Mindoro (Eagle News) — A Puerto Galera councilor and his son were killed in what police said was an ambush on Tuesday. The police said the attack on Councilor Melchor Arago and his youngest son, Kenneth, took place around 4 p.m. Witnesses said the first to be shot by men on board a motorcycle was Arago’s son, who had gotten off their Honda CRV to open the gate of their house in Barangay […]
(Eagle News) — A Puerto Galera councilor and his son were killed in what police said was an ambush on Tuesday. The police said the attack on Councilor Melchor Arago and his youngest son, Kenneth, took place around 4 p.m. Witnesses said the first to be shot by men on board a motorcycle was Arago’s son, who had gotten off their Honda CRV to open the gate of their house in Barangay Small Tabinay so the […]
by M Jegathesan Agence France Presse SHAH ALAM, Malaysia (AFP) — The half-brother of North Korea’s leader suffered extensive organ damage after being attacked with a nerve agent, a pathologist said Tuesday, as more chilling details emerged at the trial of his alleged killers. Vital organs, including his lungs and brain, swelled due to a build-up of fluid, testified Mohamad Shah Mahmood, who carried out the post-mortem on Kim Jong-Nam. Two women are on […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — US astrophysicists Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for the discovery of gravitational waves, the Nobel jury said. Predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago as part of his theory of general relativity, but only detected in 2015, gravitational waves are “ripples” in the fabric of space-time caused by violent processes such as colliding black holes or the collapse of […]
(Eagle News) — A Puerto Galera councilor and his son were killed in what police said was an ambush on Tuesday. Councilor Melchor Arago and his teenager son were about to enter their home in Oriental Mindoro when the attack took place. The police have yet to determine the number of suspects, and the motive behind the attack. There are no other details available so far.
(Reuters) — Aamir Khan, the Bollywood superstar with a conscience, says his next movie about a small town teenage girl who uses the Internet to become a singing sensation will be much bigger than his last film, India’s highest grossing ever. Khan, 52, plays a sleazy music producer in the film “Secret Superstar” and says he is second lead to teenager Zaira Wasim, playing a schoolgirl who defies her conservative Muslim family to pursue her […]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) — A double suicide bomb attack hit a police station in Syria’s capital Damascus on Monday, state media said, with a monitor saying at least 16 people were killed. Damascus has been largely insulated from the worst of the violence during the country’s brutal six-year war, but several bomb attacks have shaken the city. Syria’s interior ministry said two suicide bombers had blown themselves up at the police station in the southern […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — French police arrested five people, including one on a terror watchlist after discovering a suspected home-made bomb in one of Paris’ most exclusive neighborhoods at the weekend, officials said. Police discovered two gas cylinders in the hallway of a building in the city’s western 16th district in the early hours of Saturday morning and two others on the pavement outside. A mobile phone attached to the cylinders is being investigated as […]
by Martin Parry SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia offered to help the United States reform its gun laws Tuesday after a successful two-decade clampdown on firearms in the wake of its own worst mass shooting. The US is reeling after at least 59 people were killed and more than 500 injured when retired accountant Stephen Paddock opened fire on thousands of concertgoers in Las Vegas before killing himself. The shocking tragedy has sparked renewed calls […]
